Get A Free Popular IDE For PHP

15 April 2008 By: Catalin Bocanu, Web News Editor Get A Free Popular IDE For PHP Dev-PHP IDE Even if you are a beginner or an advanced PHP developer, the usage of adequate tools when you create PHP programs will definitely improve the workflow. The coding in PHP programming language could be performed with the help of a text editor like Notepad or an editor having the feature of synthax highlighting.But in case of the complex application development, only a simple editor will not be enough to ensure the maintenance of a regular workflow. In this case, it is necessary to select an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) with the minimal number of features appropriate to manage a certain type of project.DEV-PHP is a free integrated development environment for PHP scripting language that runs on Windows operating system. By using this tool, you will be able to manage any type of PHP script running on a web server or directly on the operating system as portable application based on PHP-GTK extension.In order to use all DEV-PHP features, you will have to define the required parameters in the General Options window, such as synthax properties, PHP parser and PHP.ini path, web server parameters and so on.